Find out why enterprise businesses like Blue Shield Blue Cross, Gentiva Health Services, Specsavers, and others have ranked Adaptive insights #1 in both ease of use and time to value in the latest Gartner 2015 Critical Capabilities for Corporate Performance Management Suites research report.
Adaptive insights forrester and boston scientific webinar_finalAdaptive Insights
Paul Hamerman, VP & Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, explains how modern enterprises can leverage new finance technology in this FP&A Power Hour Presentation
Using Dashboards & Analytics to Find Hidden Gems in Your DataAdaptive Insights
Adaptive Insights Senior Solution Specialist Vito Mancini discuss the new, more strategic role of CFOs within their organizations, the importance of data analytics to strategic leadership, and financial dashboards and analytics can help finance leaders fulfill their new responsibilities to drive organizational growth and better decision-making.
Demystifying Cost and Implementation Challenges with Adaptive InsightsAdaptive Insights
Learn about the challenges to financial planning and analysis (FP&A) modernization, and how cloud-based solutions like Adaptive can mitigate these risks while reducing planning and reporting cycle times by 75%+!
Steve Player, Program Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRTA) North America, Details five financial budgeting mistakes that all business financial professionals should avoid while explaining how modern business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) technology can help Finance teams maintain focus on the metrics that matter most to the business' success.
Enable High-performance and Strategic Capabilities with Flow MetricsTasktop
To remain relevant amid increasing market disruption, organizations have no choice but to compress their software delivery timelines to deliver features customers want, faster.
Frequently, tactical decisions are made to add people, invest in more tools, and increase the amount of work in teams’ backlogs without achieving the desired results. Agile transformations introduce methodologies and frameworks without the appropriate support mechanisms for success. To enable high performance and inform strategic decisions, organizations need a new foundation.
During this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Flow Framework Engagement Manager, Kristen Biddulph, presents how Flow Metrics provide that foundation, irrespective of methodology or framework, by surfacing end-to-end data on an organization’s flow of work, providing insights that will help them meet their goals.
Proactive steps to ensure the success of the next ERP project.
The main goal of this presentation is to provide learned lessons and project recommendations
by assessing the failure of Avon order managementsystem project from an IT projectmanagement perspective
Adaptive insights forrester and boston scientific webinar_finalAdaptive Insights
Paul Hamerman, VP & Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, explains how modern enterprises can leverage new finance technology in this FP&A Power Hour Presentation
Using Dashboards & Analytics to Find Hidden Gems in Your DataAdaptive Insights
Adaptive Insights Senior Solution Specialist Vito Mancini discuss the new, more strategic role of CFOs within their organizations, the importance of data analytics to strategic leadership, and financial dashboards and analytics can help finance leaders fulfill their new responsibilities to drive organizational growth and better decision-making.
Demystifying Cost and Implementation Challenges with Adaptive InsightsAdaptive Insights
Learn about the challenges to financial planning and analysis (FP&A) modernization, and how cloud-based solutions like Adaptive can mitigate these risks while reducing planning and reporting cycle times by 75%+!
Steve Player, Program Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRTA) North America, Details five financial budgeting mistakes that all business financial professionals should avoid while explaining how modern business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) technology can help Finance teams maintain focus on the metrics that matter most to the business' success.
Enable High-performance and Strategic Capabilities with Flow MetricsTasktop
To remain relevant amid increasing market disruption, organizations have no choice but to compress their software delivery timelines to deliver features customers want, faster.
Frequently, tactical decisions are made to add people, invest in more tools, and increase the amount of work in teams’ backlogs without achieving the desired results. Agile transformations introduce methodologies and frameworks without the appropriate support mechanisms for success. To enable high performance and inform strategic decisions, organizations need a new foundation.
During this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Flow Framework Engagement Manager, Kristen Biddulph, presents how Flow Metrics provide that foundation, irrespective of methodology or framework, by surfacing end-to-end data on an organization’s flow of work, providing insights that will help them meet their goals.
Proactive steps to ensure the success of the next ERP project.
The main goal of this presentation is to provide learned lessons and project recommendations
by assessing the failure of Avon order managementsystem project from an IT projectmanagement perspective
How to Drive Maximum Business Value from IT Investments with the Flow FrameworkTasktop
When organizations connect and measure the impact of their IT investments on the business’ strategy, business and technology leaders are able to partner more effectively and accelerate the delivery of real business value.
But to do so, these teams must be seamlessly aligned throughout the delivery pipeline, able to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks, and work together to optimize their processes end-to-end. Flow Metrics enable organizations to measure what matters in software delivery, optimizing the flow of business value from ideation to operation and turning IT from a project-oriented cost center to a profit-generating product operating model.
Key Takeaways:
Discover how to align business and IT leaders to optimize value delivery using the Flow Framework™
Learn how to use Flow Metrics to expose bottlenecks and reveal opportunities to improve time-to-market, responsiveness to customers, and quality
Understand how to create a seamless end-to-end flow of business value in large-scale application delivery using Blueprint Storyteller and Tasktop Hub
Power to the People! Shifting from Project to Product with Tasktop VizTasktop
If your executive leadership has begun planning a shift from project to product, it’s time to talk about how it impacts and benefits you.
Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile Coaches are invited to join this webinar to learn about:
* Measuring what matters: What to measure when you shift to product.
* Getting to product metrics fast: How to measure product value streams in a traditionally project-oriented organization.
* Aligning with the business: How to focus teams on generating new business value while negotiating priorities like tech debt.
* Empowering teams: How to motivate teams in new product structures to identify and overcome their constraints and dependencies.
Your Tasktop co-hosts—Nicole Bryan, VP Product Development, and Naomi Lurie, Sr Director of Product Marketing—will share real-life stories from enterprises using Tasktop Viz to make the shift to product. They’ll also share best practices on how to get started and literally get insights within days.
Avoid wasting time and money procuring and implementing dcimUptime Institute
To often, the pursuit of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) benefits leads to a procurement and implementation process that takes too long, software that costs too much, and the tools often under-deliver. Organizations frequently fail to define business requirements for DCIM and evaluate options in a holistic and consistent framework. This webinar can help provide insight into why those outcomes occur and how to avoid them.
Delivering Value with Financial Performance: Leading FP&A Practices of High-G...Proformative, Inc.
The FP&A organization along with the rest of finance is undergoing a transformation, with increasing responsibilities and their accompanying challenges, all of which have to be undertaken with limited resources. FP&A leaders, like their peers in other finance groups, are being asked to elevate their focus and extend their reach across the organization, while still delivering on traditional blocking and tackling activities. Hear from FP&A leaders who have created significant company value while navigating high growth business environments. Learn how best practices – on KPIs, planning cycles, rolling forecasts, and other techniques – have enabled high performance, both for their functions and for their overall business.
Speakers: Eileen Tobias, Sr. Director of FP&A, NetSuite
Eric Zimmerman, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Infusionsoft
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 4
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail: implementing ERP and CRM systemsSageukofficial
David Beard, from the business software company Sage UK, looks at market place trends driving the thoughts of software vendors. He then considers why businesses often fail to realise the measurable benefits from ERP and CRM software implementations and what they can do to widen, and thus, improve their approach.
David Beard
CRM Evangelist - Sage CRM Solutions
"With over 10 years involvement in business analyst & project management roles for a variety of companies in the IT, telecommunications & banking sectors, David brings a wealth of experience in helping companies define what a customer means and how best to interact - across both cultural & systemic contexts"
Organizations spend millions of dollars and many months of effort to design and build a new data center facility, yet too often planning for how that data center will actually operate is an afterthought.
The impacts of this oversight are significant:
--If the operations team isn't prepared to go live on Day 1, facilities sit idle, losing revenues by the minute.
--Single design decisions that don't factor in day-to-day operations can add hundreds of unnecessary man-hours per year to data center maintenance costs.
To ensure that the uptime and business goals of the data center are met, operations planning needs to begin early on. A "Start With The End In Mind" approach allows you to increase efficiency, avoid costly operating errors, and ensure that the large capital investments made in a facility yield the most efficient ROI.
Rapid Deployment of ERP solutions using Lean & Agile MethodsHusni Roukbi
Cloud and Agile has changed the business model for implementing ERP Solutions.Implementing ERP solutions in the traditional waterfall way that takes up to 18 months before a customer can see the value of it is no longer acceptable.
P.R.E.S.T.O. is a cloud-based operational excellence business enterprise solution offering functionality and discipline in the end-to-end management of continuous improvement activities, specifically business process optimization, offering a wide array of benefits to many areas of the organization including IT, Human Resources, Risk & Compliance and Business Operations. As a performance enhancement solution, P.R.E.S.T.O. instils a sense of ownership, sense of urgency, and a sense of purpose at all levels of the organization ensuring that continuous improvement and cross-departmental collaboration are made top priority with performance-related results available to the management team in real time. Learn about the many features of P.R.E.S.T.O. by visiting the following link: http://toppti.com/ or by calling 317-292-6639 to schedule a free demo.
Align, Inform, Inspire: Measuring Business Agility and SAFe® with Flow MetricsTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream to demonstrate how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
FinancialForce HCM Case Study: Jacobus Consulting - midsize businessPolina Polishchuk
With FinancialForce ERP, the Jacobus team is able to break down the silos that existed between operations, HR, finance and sales team - information flows seamlessly on the Salesforce platform.
How to Drive Maximum Business Value from IT Investments with the Flow FrameworkTasktop
When organizations connect and measure the impact of their IT investments on the business’ strategy, business and technology leaders are able to partner more effectively and accelerate the delivery of real business value.
But to do so, these teams must be seamlessly aligned throughout the delivery pipeline, able to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks, and work together to optimize their processes end-to-end. Flow Metrics enable organizations to measure what matters in software delivery, optimizing the flow of business value from ideation to operation and turning IT from a project-oriented cost center to a profit-generating product operating model.
Key Takeaways:
Discover how to align business and IT leaders to optimize value delivery using the Flow Framework™
Learn how to use Flow Metrics to expose bottlenecks and reveal opportunities to improve time-to-market, responsiveness to customers, and quality
Understand how to create a seamless end-to-end flow of business value in large-scale application delivery using Blueprint Storyteller and Tasktop Hub
Power to the People! Shifting from Project to Product with Tasktop VizTasktop
If your executive leadership has begun planning a shift from project to product, it’s time to talk about how it impacts and benefits you.
Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile Coaches are invited to join this webinar to learn about:
* Measuring what matters: What to measure when you shift to product.
* Getting to product metrics fast: How to measure product value streams in a traditionally project-oriented organization.
* Aligning with the business: How to focus teams on generating new business value while negotiating priorities like tech debt.
* Empowering teams: How to motivate teams in new product structures to identify and overcome their constraints and dependencies.
Your Tasktop co-hosts—Nicole Bryan, VP Product Development, and Naomi Lurie, Sr Director of Product Marketing—will share real-life stories from enterprises using Tasktop Viz to make the shift to product. They’ll also share best practices on how to get started and literally get insights within days.
Avoid wasting time and money procuring and implementing dcimUptime Institute
To often, the pursuit of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) benefits leads to a procurement and implementation process that takes too long, software that costs too much, and the tools often under-deliver. Organizations frequently fail to define business requirements for DCIM and evaluate options in a holistic and consistent framework. This webinar can help provide insight into why those outcomes occur and how to avoid them.
Delivering Value with Financial Performance: Leading FP&A Practices of High-G...Proformative, Inc.
The FP&A organization along with the rest of finance is undergoing a transformation, with increasing responsibilities and their accompanying challenges, all of which have to be undertaken with limited resources. FP&A leaders, like their peers in other finance groups, are being asked to elevate their focus and extend their reach across the organization, while still delivering on traditional blocking and tackling activities. Hear from FP&A leaders who have created significant company value while navigating high growth business environments. Learn how best practices – on KPIs, planning cycles, rolling forecasts, and other techniques – have enabled high performance, both for their functions and for their overall business.
Speakers: Eileen Tobias, Sr. Director of FP&A, NetSuite
Eric Zimmerman, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Infusionsoft
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 4
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail: implementing ERP and CRM systemsSageukofficial
David Beard, from the business software company Sage UK, looks at market place trends driving the thoughts of software vendors. He then considers why businesses often fail to realise the measurable benefits from ERP and CRM software implementations and what they can do to widen, and thus, improve their approach.
David Beard
CRM Evangelist - Sage CRM Solutions
"With over 10 years involvement in business analyst & project management roles for a variety of companies in the IT, telecommunications & banking sectors, David brings a wealth of experience in helping companies define what a customer means and how best to interact - across both cultural & systemic contexts"
Organizations spend millions of dollars and many months of effort to design and build a new data center facility, yet too often planning for how that data center will actually operate is an afterthought.
The impacts of this oversight are significant:
--If the operations team isn't prepared to go live on Day 1, facilities sit idle, losing revenues by the minute.
--Single design decisions that don't factor in day-to-day operations can add hundreds of unnecessary man-hours per year to data center maintenance costs.
To ensure that the uptime and business goals of the data center are met, operations planning needs to begin early on. A "Start With The End In Mind" approach allows you to increase efficiency, avoid costly operating errors, and ensure that the large capital investments made in a facility yield the most efficient ROI.
Rapid Deployment of ERP solutions using Lean & Agile MethodsHusni Roukbi
Cloud and Agile has changed the business model for implementing ERP Solutions.Implementing ERP solutions in the traditional waterfall way that takes up to 18 months before a customer can see the value of it is no longer acceptable.
P.R.E.S.T.O. is a cloud-based operational excellence business enterprise solution offering functionality and discipline in the end-to-end management of continuous improvement activities, specifically business process optimization, offering a wide array of benefits to many areas of the organization including IT, Human Resources, Risk & Compliance and Business Operations. As a performance enhancement solution, P.R.E.S.T.O. instils a sense of ownership, sense of urgency, and a sense of purpose at all levels of the organization ensuring that continuous improvement and cross-departmental collaboration are made top priority with performance-related results available to the management team in real time. Learn about the many features of P.R.E.S.T.O. by visiting the following link: http://toppti.com/ or by calling 317-292-6639 to schedule a free demo.
Align, Inform, Inspire: Measuring Business Agility and SAFe® with Flow MetricsTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream to demonstrate how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
FinancialForce HCM Case Study: Jacobus Consulting - midsize businessPolina Polishchuk
With FinancialForce ERP, the Jacobus team is able to break down the silos that existed between operations, HR, finance and sales team - information flows seamlessly on the Salesforce platform.
Taking the first step to agile digital servicesindeuppal
The Government’s Digital by Default agenda has changed the way IT and digital services are created, tested
and deployed. While the quality, usability and security will always be vital, agility is everything. And this is
exactly what the Government’s Digital by Default agenda requires.
Transforming your business by introducing new digital services can seem a daunting process. Not to mention
delivering these services based on an ‘agile’ methodology.
But do you know what agile is? And why do you
need to adopt this approach? Importantly, how do you put together an agile project team and where do you find the right suppliers? The questions no doubt seem endless. But the main problem can often be the misconceptions about agile itself. Only when you get to grips with this, can you start to think about putting a plan in place. But before we can do that, we need to be clear about what agile actually is …
Novartis introduced i-nexus to more effectively control and report on capital expenditure and to facilitate enhanced IQP (Innovation Quality Productivity) project management. The i-nexus Capital Expenditure and Operational Excellence StartPoint solutions have projects that have been initiated in divisions including pharma, vaccines and diagnostics, and consumer health.
How to Achieve Measurable Benefits Through Project and Organizational ChangePactera_US
Is your organization realizing expected benefits from projects? Is there a process in place to measure results?
Watch this webinar and learn:
- The financial, technical and process benefits of executing projects correctly
- How to measure benefits from changes
- Critical factors to consider before beginning a project
This webinar is a must view for business leaders and project managers responsible for ensuring the success of projects.
One of the world’s largest household and professional appliances companies based in Sweden designed a strategic innovation process that was implemented across the organization.
The purpose of this process was to coordinate inter departmental efforts in innovation, ensuring a smooth workflow that would take ideas to an end-user goods.
Over time, the departments within the company had begun to adopt their own individual practices. These did not mesh well with each other or with the overall strategic process.
The management decided it was time for reevaluation and this is where Googol came into the picture.
The Do's and Don'ts of Fixing FP&A While ERP is in FluxAdaptive Insights
Should you wait to finish implementing your ERP before tackling planning & reporting? Here are some DO's & DON'Ts to consider if you're addressing your FP&A process while in the midst of an ERP project.
CFO Indicator Q4 2016 Survey on Corporate Reporting EfficiencyAdaptive Insights
A survey of over 400 CFOs explored the topic of corporate and financial reporting, specifically highlighting reporting process efficiencies, current and expected report volumes, and existing shortcomings in reporting systems. Results indicate an opportunity to automate non-value-added tasks so that finance has the time needed to deliver actionable insights.
Adaptive Insights surveyed more than 300 global CFOs to
understand trends in finance for its CFO Indicator Q3 2016 report. This quarter's survey explored the tracking of non-financial KPIs and how factor into measuring corporate performance today and into the future.
The Torchie Awards reveal the stories of finance teams who are using cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software to pioneer new forms of finance transformation.
These awards were presented at Adaptive Insights' annual user conference Adaptive Live held in April 2016.
The Adaptive Insights CFO Indicator Q1 2016 surveyed 377global CFOs to understand trends in financial forecasting during increased market and economic uncertainty. We found that although CFOs are worried about the economy, they are confident about their forecasting capabilities, thanks to their proficiency in harnessing data analytics to plan for multiple scenarios.
Finance's Data Journey: All Roads Lead to a Single Source of TruthAdaptive Insights
Adaptive Insights asked 435 CFOs across the globe to share their thoughts on data—the critical component to delivering actionable reports and insights to drive the business. In order to be effective, CFOs ranked accuracy and integrity of the data (65%), and the timeliness/shelf life of data (42%) at the top of their list. Because finance teams plan and report using data that quickly becomes outdated and often flows from multiple sources, the quest for truth can be a long and winding road. What are the key steps—and setbacks—on the journey to attaining the data dream of a single source of truth?
The annual Torchie Awards honor Adaptive customers for excellence across key implementation and business categories. The Torchie award winners represent the essence of the passionate group of over 2600+ organizations that Adaptive is proud to call its customers.
Named for the Adaptive Insights’ logo, the “Flame of Insights,” the awards were presented in April during Adaptive Live 2015, the company’s annual global user conference.
A survey by the Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), sponsored by Adaptive Insights, reveals the use of modern financial planning and analysis (FP&A) technology among business finance professionals.
Details on how the architecture and engineering firm McKinstry uses the cloud BI & CPM software suite from Adaptive Insights to manage and grow its business.
Cafe Soluble Success Story with Adaptive Insights Cloud BI & CPM Software SuiteAdaptive Insights
Cafe Soluble, one of the largest food & beverage distributors in Central America, chooses the Adaptive Insights cloud BI & CPM software suite for great insights into financial and operational data, increased departmental data around key performance metrics, and more efficient financial processes.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...
Adaptive Insights Enterprise Customer Success
1. NucleusResearch.com
Phone: +1 617.720.2000
Nucleus Research Inc.
100 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
THE BOTTOM LINE
Gentiva deployed Adaptive Insights’ Adaptive Planning solution to replace a number of
solutions that made the budget process cumbersome, frustrated users, and were time-
consuming. Nucleus found that Adaptive enabled the company to support its growth and
complex business model while increasing staff productivity.
ROI: 751%
Payback: 1.3 months
Average annual benefit: $914,871
THE COMPANY
Gentiva Health Services, Inc., publically traded and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is the
nation’s largest provider of home health and hospice services based on revenue, delivering
innovative, high quality care to patients across the United States. Gentiva is a single
source for skilled nursing; physical, occupational, speech and neurorehabilitation services,
hospice services, social work, nutrition, disease management education, help with daily
living activities, and other therapies and services. Gentiva has been in the home
healthcare business since 1971 and in the subsequent years acquired several companies,
creating the largest US healthcare provider of home health and hospice services based on
revenue.
THE CHALLENGE
Like many organizations that are built through acquisitions, Gentiva had several tools
being used for budget planning and reporting. It had 400 locations across the country,
and the process of budgeting was a long and arduous one. End users were frustrated with
the length of time it took to complete their budgets, rollups had a variety of rules that had
to be incorporated which added to the complexity, and there was a high level of
dissatisfaction overall with the entire process.
ROI CASE STUDY
ADAPTIVE INSIGHTS
GENTIVA
Document O237
November 2014
ANALYST:
Nina
SANDY
7. By the Numbers
Gentiva's Adaptive Planning project
THE PROJECT
THE RESULTS
Improved regional directors productivity
Reduced AVP and Finance director time
Reduced technology and outsourcing costs
Cost : Benefit
Ratio
- Kevin Bradshaw, Finance Director, Gentiva
NucleusResearch.com
Copyright 2014 Nucleus Research Inc.
Nucleus Research Report o237 - Adaptive Insights ROI Case Study - Gentiva
“Adaptive Planning has allowed us to increase engagement, and significantly reduce the time spent on
the budget process. It is simpler, people are involved, and it takes a lot less time.”
3
Annual Return
on Investment
months
Gentiva deployed Adaptive Insights’ Adaptive Planning
solution to replace a number of solutions that made the
budget process cumbersome, frustrated users, and were
time-consuming. Nucleus found that Adaptive Planning
enabled the company to support its growth and
increasingly complex business model while increasing
staff productivity.
Months
Total time for the company to
deploy Adaptive Planning
Number of users:
1.3
914,871
Average annual benefit
751%
01:11.7
The total time to value, or
payback period, for the project
500
8. Corporate Headquarters
3350 W. Bayshore Road, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
T: +1 800 303 6346
F: +1 650 528 7501
UK / Ireland Headquarters
88 Wood Street London,
EC2V 7RS, UK
T: +44 0 208 528 1767
Australia Headquarters
Level 1, 7 Clunies Ross Court
Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113, Australia
T: +61 7 3118 5013
F: +61 7 3041 6020
adaptiveinsights.com
adaptiveinsights.co.uk
info@adaptiveinsights.com
sales@adaptiveinsights.com
press@adaptiveinsights.com
support@adaptiveinsights.com
Customer Success Story
An Improved, Collaborative Approach
to FP&A
Today the finance team uses the comprehensive historical data view in Adaptive to
produce more well-informed financial forecasts and more detailed ‘what-if’ scenarios.
And in addition to measuring performance by market, they also model core planning
drivers in Adaptive for personnel, members, and premiums. Then Renaud’s team can drill
into financial performance by department and individual transaction to learn what’s
driving those numbers. These and other benefits have combined to convert a top-down
FP&A approach into an improved bottom-up strategy; one that starts with deeper
performance visibility, and leads to greater financial accountability across the business.
“There’s a lot more information sharing between departments than before,” continued
Renaud. “People are adding more performance details that help us in finance to produce
reports and forecasts that better support long-term, organizational strategy. Our CEO
is so happy with our improved monthly forecasts that he even held up a report in a meeting
and talked about how great it was.”
Real-Time Updates Lead to Data-Driven
Decisions
Using those added performance details, finance is more accurately allocating operating
expenses and creating individual forecasts for revenue and health coverage claims.
Adaptive then automatically updates those forecasts according to changes in business
drivers so that company leaders are constantly making decisions using the most
current financial analytics.
“We can create a ‘what-if’ scenario in the middle of a leadership meeting, make any changes
to actuals on the fly, and Adaptive automatically updates and rolls those changes up to the
corporate level. That automation frees up more time to uncover and share more valuable
insight into financial performance with the entire company. We’re a much more predictive,
data-driven organization today as a result of Adaptive.”
“Adaptive helps us more
clearly see our costs per
market, and more easily
forecast the impact of
any major changes or
key decisions, like the
consequences of exiting
a particular market.”
— Sarah Renaud,
Team Leader of Budgets
“It took us weeks to do
[benchmarking and
reporting] when we
used Excel exclusively.
Now it’s done instantly
within Adaptive.”
— Sarah Renaud,
Team Leader of Budgets
11. Corporate Headquarters
3350 W. Bayshore Road, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
T: +1 800 303 6346
F: +1 650 528 7501
UK / Ireland Headquarters
88 Wood Street London,
EC2V 7RS, UK
T: +44 0 208 528 1767
Australia Headquarters
Level 1, 7 Clunies Ross Court
Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113, Australia
T: +61 7 3118 5013
F: +61 7 3041 6020
adaptiveinsights.com
adaptiveinsights.co.uk
info@adaptiveinsights.com
sales@adaptiveinsights.com
press@adaptiveinsights.com
support@adaptiveinsights.com
Customer Success Story
An empowered finance team making an
impact on business decisions
Adaptive Planning has allowed Specsavers to allocate budget far more simply and
efficiently; reducing any unnecessary costs and minimizing the hours spent correlating
data from different cost centers. Planning has been accelerated by 50 percent, thanks
to automated aggregation and pre-population of planning sheets with data from the
company’s general ledger and ERP systems.
Today, Specsavers generates monthly tailored reports and models complex ‘what-if’
scenarios within Adaptive Planning for decisions on hiring and making new investments in
the business. Specsavers can easily understand the financial impact of potential new FTE’s
and can quickly flow through the impact of varying retail performances to the bottom line.
With Adaptive, Specsavers has automated its variance analysis and monthly retailing KPI
reporting. “By holding our retail data and KPI’s within a robust application instead of across
multiple spreadsheets, we have easy access to one version of the truth that has become
the go to database for reporting this information,” Buckley explained. Furthermore, the
detailed reporting means that Specsavers has a reliable audit trail.
Self-service financial reporting has been quickly utilized by the most senior decision makers
within Specsavers. All of the executives have simultaneous and instant access to the very
latest financial information and forecasts, giving them better visibility of what’s happening
across the organization to make quicker, more strategic business decisions.
“Adaptive Planning offers Specsavers visibility into all of our key performance metrics all
through a single pane of glass. We can rest assured that this information is both accurate
and up-to-date, which is vital when we’re planning and making predictions,” continued
Buckley. “Anyone who has spent time and effort trawling through Excel spreadsheets,
never quite achieving the perfect final picture, would greet the ease and insight afforded
by Adaptive Planning with open arms. It has allowed us to drive discussions based on
a single view of the entire business, giving us the historic picture that allows us to look
forward based on real trends, proving that the entire business can now benefit from a more
collaborative, better informed and empowered finance team.”
“Adaptive has offered us
a scalable solution to our
budgeting and reporting
requirements. More than
ever before the company
is now all on the same
financial page.”
— Matt Buckley, Group
Planning & Reporting Lead
for Finance
“It has allowed us to drive
discussions based on a
single view of the entire
business, giving us the
historic picture that allows
us to look forward based
on real trends.”
— Matt Buckley, Group
Planning & Reporting Lead
for Finance
13. Corporate Headquarters
3350 W. Bayshore Road, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
T: +1 800 303 6346
F: +1 650 528 7501
UK / Ireland Headquarters
88 Wood Street London,
EC2V 7RS, UK
T: +44 0 208 528 1767
Australia Headquarters
Level 1, 7 Clunies Ross Court
Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113, Australia
T: +61 7 3118 5013
F: +61 7 3041 6020
adaptiveinsights.com
adaptiveinsights.co.uk
info@adaptiveinsights.com
sales@adaptiveinsights.com
press@adaptiveinsights.com
support@adaptiveinsights.com
Customer Success Story
“We wanted to make a change, but did not want something difficult to learn.
Everything we evaluated was too big, too time consuming, too expensive, and
simply too much for a company of our size,” recalls Lansford.
After evaluating multiple vendors, Adaptive Insights stood out for its ability to
quickly train users, leverage a familiar Excel look and feel, and eliminate version
control issues and formula errors. Adaptive Planning, part of the Adaptive Suite,
did not require a big monetary investment, required no IT support, and enabled
seamless roll-up of data from the district and division levels to the overall
company plan.
“Adaptive Planning was the only solution that made sense. It offers a huge leap
forward in terms of functionality, without turning everyone’s world upside down,”
confirms Lansford. “A great selling point of Adaptive was that no internal IT
resources were required to get the budgeting project done. Our IT resources are
better spent on other company objectives.”
The Results
CORT worked with a local partner based in Virginia to implement Adaptive
Planning and build their model. CORT conducted their first budget using Adaptive
by granting access to the application to more than 400 contributors. The process
took less than 3 months, cutting the duration of the process by more than half. In
addition, they have standardized the process by having common assumptions and
standard formulas in the model, thereby eliminating errors in the budget.
“With Adaptive Planning, we can push the budgeting process out toward the
end of the year and still be confident in finishing it on time. What’s more, we get
better visibility into the financial picture of the operation and a more accurate
budget,” says Lansford. “We got exactly what we were looking for to make our
budgeting process a lot less painful– and it didn’t cost a fortune.”
Now, because the finance team has the ability to update plans much more
quickly and easily, they also use Adaptive Planning as a monthly forecasting tool.
Forecasting is now a simple one-day review process, which is far more efficient
and effective than the prior process. The application’s multi-dimensional cube
sheet functionality enables quick “at a glance” views of key assumptions such
as number of units rented at a given dollar value across centers. In addition,
Adaptive Planning has enabled consistent upload of the forecast into their ERP
system for improved reporting and analysis.
“For anyone still dependent on Excel spreadsheets for corporate budgeting,
Adaptive Planning is the easy and smart transition to a modern web-based
application,” confirms Lansford.
“With Adaptive Planning, we
can push the budgeting
process out toward the
end of the year and still
be confident in finishing
it on time. What’s more,
we get better visibility into
the financial picture of
the operation and a more
accurate budget. We got
exactly what we were
looking for to make our
budgeting process a lot
less painful—and it didn’t
cost a fortune”
Deborah Lansford
CFO
“For anyone still dependent
on Excel spreadsheets
for corporate budgeting,
Adaptive Planning is the
easy and smart transition
to a modern web-based
application.”
Deborah Lansford
CFO
15. Corporate Headquarters
3350 W. Bayshore Road, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94303
T: +1 800 303 6346
F: +1 650 528 7501
UK / Ireland Headquarters
88 Wood Street London,
EC2V 7RS, UK
T: +44 0 208 528 1767
Australia Headquarters
Level 1, 7 Clunies Ross Court
Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113, Australia
T: +61 7 3118 5013
F: +61 7 3041 6020
adaptiveinsights.com
adaptiveinsights.co.uk
info@adaptiveinsights.com
sales@adaptiveinsights.com
press@adaptiveinsights.com
support@adaptiveinsights.com
Customer Success Story
The Solution
The finance team wanted to find a solution that would allow them to own and operate
their existing budget, as well as a tool that could conduct scenario modeling much faster
than their existing platform. After attending a seminar on budgeting and forecasting best
practices, they decided to try replicating their existing budget model, currently housed in
Hyperion, in Adaptive Planning, part of the Adaptive Suite.
Boston Scientific implemented Adaptive Planning in the midst of their annual budget
process and rolled out to 25 users. The implementation period was one month long and
they saved a tremendous amount of time collecting budget data from contributors.
“After implementing Adaptive and rolling it out to our customers, the feedback was
universally positive,” said Powers. “Our users found it very easy to use and intuitive. They
loved it!”
The Results
With Adaptive Planning, the Boston Scientific site has significantly streamlined their budget
process. The six week budget cycle time remains the same, but they have reduced the time
spent across the team by 80 hours and enabled the finance team to absorb the work of
two other finance analysts.
“Now we spend less time dealing with system problems and IT delays and more time
understanding how the model is structured and how it impacts the business,” explains
Powers. “With 25 participants in the budget process, the level of access to information,
transparency and collaboration has increased substantially. It builds confidence between
stakeholders and the finance team.”
Boston Scientific is now conducting management reporting by importing data from SAP
into Adaptive. In addition, they conduct what-if analysis on employee productivity, sales
volume, and house long-range five year plans in Adaptive.
“Adaptive worked great for us during our 2012 budgeting process. IÕd say it even exceeded
our expectations. When the Hyperion system used by our broader company experienced
unexpected downtime during the budget cycle, we were able to continue our budget
process in Adaptive,” confirms Powers. “With Adaptive Planning, we achieved a better
budget process at a fraction of the cost compared to the millions of dollars and years of
investment spent maintaining the on-premise Hyperion solution.”
“With 25 participants
in the budget process,
the level of access to
information, transparency
and collaboration has
increased substantially. It
builds confidence between
stakeholders and the
finance team.”
Mark Powers
Sr. Finance Manager
“After implementing
Adaptive and rolling it out
to our customers, the
feedback was universally
positive. Our users found
it very easy to use and
intuitive. They loved it!”
Mark Powers
Sr. Finance Manager